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The Front Lines is back! In our third edition, we came back with the same mix of thought-provoking topics that drive the most current conversations in our industry. And, of course, to make sure these topics get the treatment they deserve, we are once more bringing in the leading voices in Cybersecurity and Security Awareness.
Our objective for this event is to provide an opportunity for security leaders & practitioners to discuss and exchange ideas about essential matters in the cybersecurity industry that are faced daily on the front lines.
In previous years, you’ve seen professionals from the FBI, NIST, CISA, ANZ, Standard Chartered Bank, GMR Group, Orca Security, and many more. CISOs, unicorn founders, investors, Security Awareness leaders, cyber skills leaders, and others will join us again to deliver 2 hours of incredible conversations.
USA OCTOBER 13
10:30
PST
Creating Next-Gen Cyber Awareness Programs
Ava Woods, Dora Ross & Ray Espinoza
11:00
PST
Leveraging Security as a Competitive Advantage
Dick Wilkinson & Scott McCrady
11:30
PST
The Roadmap to Find and Nurture Cyber Talent
Naomi Buckwalter & Mike Miller
ASIA-PACIFIC OCTOBER 17
10:00
SGT
The Cyber Threat Landscape in 2022
Feixiang He
10:30
SGT
Creating Next-Gen Cyber Awareness Programs
Daisy Wong, Cheryl Wong & Aaron Ang
11:00
SGT
Leveraging Security as a Competitive Advantage
Paul Hadjy, Benedict Cheng & Hwei Oh
11:30
SGT
The Roadmap to Find and Nurture Cyber Talent
Joel Earnshaw & Jason Murrell
Security Culture and Awareness Lead
Flybuys
Daisy Wong is a result focused and energetic leader offering 8 years’ combined experience in security culture and operations within the IT and Fintech industries. She is passionate about protecting members and team members from security threats and believe humans are the best line of defence for any organisation.
Special Agent, Cyber Branch
FBI
Enrique Alvarez served as a U.S. Navy Reserve intelligence officer and retired in 2013 as commander. At the FBI, he has supervised counterintelligence and cyber national security squads. He is in the multi-agency cyber task force at the Oakland Resident Agency.
vCISO
Mike Miller is a 25-year experienced CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) with a passion for helping fill the cyber security gap by mentoring those who are just getting started, changing fields, or wanting to level up in their current technology position. He’s the author of the “Break in Cyber Playbook.”
Director of Product Security
Contrast Security
Naomi Buckwalter, CISSP CISM, is the Director of Product Security for Contrast Security and author of the LinkedIn course: “Training today for tomorrow’s solutions – Building the Next Generation of Cybersecurity Professionals”. She is also the founder and Executive Director of Cybersecurity Gatebreakers Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to closing the demand gap in cybersecurity hiring.
Group Chief Risk Officer
PCCW
In 26 years of his career, Benedict Cheng worked in global investment banks such as UBS, Nomura, Deutsche Bank, and HSBC, where he held senior roles in market risk and operational risk, as well as acting as business COO. He successfully led several key change management initiatives covering different product and business life cycles in risk process re-engineering and digital risk transformation.
Adversary Intelligence Research Lead
Group-IB
As an adversary intelligence research lead at Group-IB, Feixiang He oversees the company’s entire CTI operations in the region. Throughout his career, Feixiang championed collaborations on threat research and intelligence sharing with governments, law enforcement agencies, industry sectors, and other organisations.
Associate Director, Global Security Awareness
Raytheon Technologies
Ava Woods is passionate about helping others understand how to shift and sustain necessary behavior change to inculcate a culture of security. She has managed security awareness and learning programs across several industries for Cvent, DXC Technology, and CACI, and held data governance, content management, and program awareness and branding positions at Navy Federal Credit Union.
CEO, Co-Founder
Horangi
Paul has over a decade of experience and expertise in Anti-Money Laundering, Insider Threat, Cyber Security, Government, and Commercial Banking. Paul leads a team of cybersecurity specialists who create software that solves challenging cybersecurity problems, bringing world-class cyber solutions to the Asian market.
Manager, Information Security &Risk
Perenti
Joel Earnshaw is an Information Security professional with over 15 years of experience working in enterprise IT environments across various roles and sectors. He possesses a solid technical background in infrastructure, information, and contemporary cyber security disciplines, all of which is underpinned by internationally recognizable qualifications and a natural ability to lead.
Security Culture Transformation Specialist
Dora Ross is an ambitious security culture lead, with over 9 years of experience in business change management, communication, IT transformation and security cultural change. She works with organisations to define and implement risk-based, human-centred security culture and training strategies enabling positive behavioural change. Dora has a true passion for information security and helping people to better protect themselves and their organisations from cyber threats.
Group Executive
AustCyber
Jason Murell has been a long-time supporter of Australian startups for over 20 years, particularly in the cyber security space for the past 6 years. He helped launch Cyber Aware in 2017, and most recently with Cyber Hive, after previously contributing to the growth of GRC platform 6clicks. Jason is also currently Cloud Branch Chair with AISA.
Jason is passionate about championing, mentoring, and connecting Australia’s cyber network. Jason is well-placed to help unite the Australian cyber community and get us as a nation to where we need to be – connected with cyber safety as a priority.
Cyber Security Culture Change Specialist
Catch
Cheryl is passionate about educating and empowering people on protecting themselves online. Focusing on the human elements of security to manage risk, she influences behavioral change to build a positive cyber culture in the workplace.
Chief Information Security Officer
Inspectiv
With over 20 years in technology and 15 years in information security, Ray Espinoza is responsible for driving operational security, risk and oversees security service delivery for Inspectiv’s customers. Before Inspectiv, Ray was VP of Cloud Security at Medallia. Additionally, he has held VP and CISO roles at Cobalt, and security leadership positions at Amazon, Workday, Cisco Systems, and eBay.
CTO
ProofLabs
Dick Wilkinson is the CTO of Proof Labs, and the former CISO of New Mexico Judicial Courts. He is also a retired US Army Officer and an NSA analyst with five years as a cybersecurity lab director for the Secretary of Defense. He is also an internationally recognized cybersecurity leader, published author, and a member of the Forbes Technology Council.
CEO
SolCyber
An MSSP international expert with over two decades of experience in networking and cybersecurity. He was instrumental in building global multi-path routes to market for well-known cybersecurity companies, including Dell, FireEye, and Symantec.
Chief Marketing Officer
SolCyber
Hwei has over twenty years’ experience in cybersecurity and technology marketing. She has worked at leading companies including Sophos, FireEye and Cylance, and more recently has found immense satisfaction consulting for cybersecurity start-ups and not-for-profits.
CEO, Co-Founder
Right-Hand
Theo Nasser is the CEO and Co-Founder of Right-Hand Cybersecurity. Right-Hand offers SaaS solutions to help enterprises personalize and automate employee awareness programs to more effectively reduce human risk, build cyber culture and meet compliance standards.
Prior to founding Right-Hand, Theo worked at FireEye and SonicWall across the US and APAC in business development and sales leadership positions.
Director of Education
Right-Hand
Aaron Ang was part of the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA). During his time at CSA, Aaron worked with veterans in the industry, both in the public and private sectors. He also serves as a council member and the Chief Executive (Cyber Youth Collective) of Cyber Youth Singapore (CYS). Aaron also worked at the headquarters of the Ministry of Education, Singapore, and is currently the Director of Education at Right-Hand Cybersecurity.